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947/1,000 COPIES, printed in purple, pp. xxxvi, 364, 8vo, original purple cloth, white cotton dustjacket with an overall sewn design of flowers and lettering by Paul Smith, stripe-design page-marker, clear perspex slipcase with limitation label, shrinkwrapped (this slightly open, in a winsome way, at rear), fine. One of five titles selected by Penguin, issued to celebrate the house's sixtieth anniversary each with a dustjacket design by a notable modern artist or designer - here with a playful floral design by British fashion designer, Paul Smith.

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy and in 1929 in France. It portrays a young married woman, Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class barrister husband has been paralyzed and rendered impotent. Her sexual frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights a major motif of the novel which is the unfair dominance of intellectuals over the working class. The book is a meditation on the necessity for a balance between the body and the mind and the destructive effects that industrialization and modernization can have on both.